Chezsven Blog: Wellfleet Today: Crabs Galore but No More Bear

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Crabs Galore but No More Bear

Overnight, the famous tweeting bear was discovered in a Wellfleet garden, tranquilized and shipped off Cape ... Over the weekend Sven and I took a walk over Uncle Tim’s bridge and proceeded down the sand path. The tide was coming in. The afternoon sun shone brightly. Sparkles lit up Duck Creek. Pedestrians were out, taking in the beautiful day, included two tourists from Scotland, who chatted with us for a while.

We walked on and suddenly I noticed something at my feet. As I looked around, I realized there were hundreds of tiny crabs, many with one huge claw, making a mad dash across the path. You would think they would have been heading towards the marsh, but no. They rushed toward the wooded shoreline. Does anyone know why? Have you witnessed this migration of fiddler crabs, or one similar?

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jboursaw 32p · 667 weeks ago

Did the bear have his own twitter account?
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chezsven 82p · 667 weeks ago

Yes. Twitter and Facebook, too.

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janet · 667 weeks ago

I'm happy to know the bear is safely off-Cape, though it was nice having a wild thing among us. Usually fiddler crabs all run for their holes in the mud when they sense footfalls coming near. I've never seen a mass migration. But I have heard them rattle their fiddles from the marsh grasses at First Encounter beach, and wondered whether it was a mating ritual.

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Brette · 667 weeks ago

I was wondering if you'd had any close encounters with the bear! Those crabs are awfully mean looking!

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chezsven 82p · 667 weeks ago

Not me, but a friend was walking her dog in the neighborhood where the bear was discovered. I was surprised that it could walk so far in one day.

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Irene · 667 weeks ago

We just had a black bear in my town. Hope you didn't ship it here :-)
Best, Irene
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Living Large · 667 weeks ago

I'm very glad they took non-lethal measures to move the bear. We recently had one photographed up a tree. People gathered around it like it was some sort of circus. Finally, the police made everyone go away so the bear would come down. It did, in the middle of the night, and has not been seen since!
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SharynEk · 667 weeks ago

I've got black bears in my yard all the time. Therre is a young one running around this year. We do our best to scare them away because if they get used to being around people and getting people food they will get into trouble and end up dead. There's a saying "a fed bear is a dead bear" . We have our large yard fenced in for our cats and the fence, black netting, is hooked to the trees so any wild animal that climbs over it just unhooks it. We just check it every morning and rehook it.
Bears have a people problem when they are fed. Last year someone was feeding bears in a residential area here and then the bears started trying to get into the house.
Which makes sense since they have learned that is where the food is!